The West Las Vegas board Monday approved the sale of two portable classrooms that would have cost more than $100,000 each to bring up to code, officials said.

Superintendent Jim Abreu told the board the portables are no longer functional and are being used for storage. He said the Public Schools Finance Authority has offered to buy the two portables for $15,000.

“The portables are not usable. If they don’t meet code, we shouldn’t be in there and they are also taking up space. PSFA is interested and they are willing to buy them from us,” he said.

Don’t expect to see students at Union Elementary School in their classrooms.

Most of the children have been in the cafeteria, the computer lab or the library for the last week because of a broken heating system, officials said Tuesday.

West Las Vegas Superintendent Jim Abreu said the school has heating at both ends of its building, but because of a broken part in the heater, the middle of the building, where the classrooms are, is without heat. The school has been dealing with the problem for the last couple of weeks, he said.

A Las Vegas man has defrauded at least five residents out of thousands of dollars on the promise that he would repair their roofs or do other construction work, court documents state.

But after getting the money, the suspect, Mario Mendoza, either hasn’t started the work or did very little, according to documents filed in Magistrate Court on Nov. 1. And the victims told authorities that they couldn’t reach Mendoza by phone or find him at his listed address.

Los Nios Elementary students are excelling at their studies, school officials say. And the children continue to do well in the adequate yearly progress test as more parents request additional classes in the city’s lone immersion program, the officials say.

Local authorities have apprehended a man on charges of fraud and doing construction work without a license.

Mario Mendoza, 50, was recently arrested by the Las Vegas police and charged in San Miguel Magistrate Court with three counts of fraud, each a third-degree felony punishable by up to three years with the state Department of Correction, a $5,000 fine or both, according to a press release from the district attorney’s office.